Just to add -- this is a boot disk restriction. Solaris 10 supports RAIDZ just fine, but not as a boot disk. Boot disks can only be mirrored. So you could use a couple of disks for a pair of mirrored boot disks, and then create a new RAIDZ zpool from the remaining 3 disks to use for data.
-- Andrew Mark J Musante wrote: > The best you can do right now is mirroring. During the install, choose > more than one hard drive and zfs will create a mirror configuration. > > Support for raidz and/or striping is for a future project. > > > On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, iman habibi wrote: > > >> Hello All >> Im new in solaris 10 zfs structure.my machine is ultra-sparc server with 5 >> scsi hards. >> data protection for my solaris operating system is important for me,so i >> want all of my hards participate in one pool and build raidz construction. >> in solaris 10 installation process,when it shows the zfs configuration(rpool >> name and size,...) i saw that it takes just one of my hards for building >> pool,not all of them.but i want to make all of my five hards to raidz >> structure. >> should i add other hards to default pool(rpool) after installation? >> can i have one pool with five hard drives and build raidz on it so that my >> operating system installed on it and has redundancy and data protection?if >> yes how? >> Regards >> Iman >> >> > > > Regards, > markm > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
